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مُهَنْدِس
engineer /muˈhandis/
nounB2#3087 most common
Also: technician (informal, for repair workers), designer (of a system or plan)
Example sentences
هُوَ مُهَنْدِسٌ.
He is an engineer.
أَبِي مُهَنْدِسٌ فِي شَرِكَةٍ كَبِيرَةٍ.
My father is an engineer at a big company.
تُرِيدُ أُخْتِي أَنْ تُصْبِحَ مُهَنْدِسَةً بَعْدَ التَّخَرُّجِ.
My sister wants to become an engineer after graduation.
اِسْتَعَانَتِ الْبَلَدِيَّةُ بِمُهَنْدِسٍ مُتَخَصِّصٍ لِتَصْمِيمِ الْجِسْرِ الْجَدِيدِ.
The municipality brought in a specialized engineer to design the new bridge.
يُشْرِفُ فَرِيقٌ مِنَ الْمُهَنْدِسِينَ عَلَى بِنَاءِ الْمَحَطَّةِ لِضَمَانِ سَلَامَةِ الْهَيْكَلِ.
A team of engineers is overseeing the station's construction to ensure the structure's safety.
لَوْلَا يَقَظَةُ الْمُهَنْدِسِ الْمُشْرِفِ لَكَانَتِ الْأَعْطَالُ الْخَفِيَّةُ فِي شَبَكَةِ الْأَنَابِيبِ قَدْ أَدَّتْ إِلَى كَارِثَةٍ.
Had the supervising engineer not been vigilant, the hidden faults in the pipe network would have caused a disaster.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُهَنْدِسٌ | مُهَنْدِسُونَ |
| Genitive | مُهَنْدِسٍ | مُهَنْدِسِينَ |
| Accusative | مُهَنْدِساً | مُهَنْدِسِينَ |
| Vocative | يَا مُهَنْدِسُ | يَا مُهَنْدِسُونَ |
Word family
هَنْدَسَto engineer, to design, to survey
هَنْدَسَةengineering, geometryمُهَنْدِسَةfemale engineer
هَنْدَسِيّgeometric, engineering-related
Etymology
مُهَنْدِس is the active participle of the quadriliteral verb هَنْدَسَ (handasa), meaning to measure, design, or engineer. Arab lexicographers trace the root back to a borrowing from Persian, where andāza meant measure or proportion, tied to early surveying and irrigation work. Over time handasa came to mean geometry and engineering broadly, and muhandis settled as the word for the person who practices it.
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